Extract FDF data from a PDF in Android

To extract data from PDF to FDF, then export FDF as XFDF

Java

PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(filename);

// Extract annotations to FDF.
// Optionally use e_both to extract both forms and annotations
FDFDoc doc_fields = doc.fdfExtract(PDFDoc.e_annots_only); //PDFDoc.e_forms_only

// Export annotations from FDF to XFDF.
doc_fields.saveAsXFDF(output_xfdf_filename);

// Optionally write XFDF to a string
String XFDF_string = doc_fields.saveAsXFDF();

Kotlin

val doc = PDFDoc(filename)

// Extract annotations to FDF.
// Optionally use e_both to extract both forms and annotations
val doc_fields = doc.fdfExtract(PDFDoc.e_annots_only) //PDFDoc.e_forms_only

// Export annotations from FDF to XFDF.
doc_fields.saveAsXFDF(output_xfdf_filename)

// Optionally write XFDF to a string
val XFDF_string = doc_fields.saveAsXFDF()

Disable annotation auto-save

Annotation updates by default will automatically save to the PDF. Set PdfViewCtrlTabFragment2::setSavingEnabled to false to disable auto-save.

PDF Form Fill and Form Data Extraction Full sample code which illustrates basic FDF merge/extract functionality and full support for FDF (Forms Data Format)